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Table of Contents

  • 1. Mechanics
  • 2. Harmonic Motion, Waves and Sound
    • A. Simple Harmonic Motion
    • B. Waves
      • 10. Bell Wave Machine
      • 20. Doppler Shift
      • 30. Fluorescent Motor Driven String
      • 40. Fourier Analysis and Synthesis
      • 50. Group and Phase Velocity
      • 60. Kundt's Tube
      • 70. Light
      • 80. Longitudinal and Transverse Waves
      • 90. Microwaves
      • 100. Motor Driven String
      • 110. Ripple Tank
      • 120. Rubber Hose or Wave Spring
      • 130. Rudnick's String
      • 140. Soap Film Oscillations
      • 150. Space Phone
      • 160. Spontaneous Synchronization
    • C. Acoustics
  • 3. Matter and Thermodynamics
  • 4. Electricity and Magnetism
  • 5. Light and Optics
  • 6. Modern Physics
  • 7. Astronomy
  • 8. Software and Multimedia
  • 9. Index and code conversion from older manual
  • External Resources

80. Longitudinal and Transverse Waves

A Russian wave machine separately models the motion of a string of beads undergoing transverse and longitudinal wave motion. The mechanism of its operation is almost more interesting than the effect it demonstrates.

Longitudinal and transverse waves can also be separately demonstrated by the Space Phone and the Rubber Hose. A slinky can be used to demonstrate both also.

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